Bojanala, North-West, South Africa
IT Specialist with 20 years of relevant experience in the Information Technology and Communication field, and with exceptional technical expertise in major large-scale migration projects. With skills ranging from Management practices linking IT strategy to business needs, with the technical abilities to configure and deploy all relevant technologies and infrastructure, to in-depth knowledge of end-to-end deployment and implementation of any software required by business.
Proxy PDO - Workspace OS and App Platform
• Part of the VDI team to migrate the BMW VDI infrastructure from On-prem data centers to VMware Horizon on Azure. • Cloud transformation of all related VDI services to cloud-enabled platforms and services. • Configuration, Maintenance, and Monitoring of the Azure Infrastructure and Services. • Configuration, Maintenance, and Monitoring of the VMware Horizon NextGen Infrastructure and Services • Configuration and Maintenance of the VMware Unified End-point Management Infrastructure and Services • Identification and Configuration of all related security practices and features relating to Zero trust infrastructure hosted on Azure. • Software Lifecycle Management and deployment through VMware Unified Endpoint management with customization through VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
•Accelerate the delivery of new services and products to market while meeting company's risk and cost reduction objectives, with the implementation of the new Hyper-V infrastructure and Tintri Virtual Storage solution. With Key points in Backup Redundancy, Disaster Recovery, Clustering and High Availability. •Match up with business unit owners and IT Management to convert key strategic objectives in to governable and actionable designs and roadmaps, implementing key Business applications. •Draw existing and future vision enterprise architecture, containing traceability from IT and business strategies to recommended technologies with the design and implementation of Departmental Services SLA, Exchange 2013, System Centre 2012 R2 Suite and KPI uptimes of 99,85%. •Design and carry out proofs of concepts for vital enterprise capabilities, including building business case with benefits, costs, and efficiency measures. •Assisted in analyzing legacy systems and applications to derive necessary business rules and functions from existing applications. •Worked as project leader to establish guidelines and standards to improve IT governance and operations. •Winning background serving with IT Management to build up architecture framework that supports processes, strategy, and IT assets with business targets. Aligning the IT Strategy with the Company’s Business Strategy with the reduction of the Company’s Risk Profile. •Strong expertise in Risk Management, creating guidelines and best practices for developing, selecting, and implementing information systems within enterprise using industry appropriate standards and security policies. •Interacted with developers, project managers to minimize expenditure, avoid redundancy, and improve overall synergy within organization. •Strategic responsibility of all the Company’s IT systems. Strong knowledge of software, hardware, applications, networking, and system engineering.
•Server Technician - Safety and maintenance of server hardware. Responsible for all physical backups and procedures. Support all software and data backups for the entire Eastplats enterprise. All change request needed on all servers. Responsible for the Dynamics AX server including backups. I am a Dynamics AX super user for first line support of the Dynamics AX system. Responsible for technical support throughout the entire Eastplats enterprise.The set up and instillation of all new servers acquired by Eastplats. The complete software related safety and maintenance needed on all servers to maintain full functionality throughout the entire Eastplats enterprise. •IT Technician - Responsible for Thin Clients, Laptops, Printers, Telephones and Network problems (General LAN Admin Support). Helping the coordination of helpdesk staff and providing technical support. Keep track of all hardware installed on the network. Printers/Copiers/Fax machines maintenance and repairs. Weighbridge software and hardware support